Wellendorff is a family-owned

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manufacturer of jewellery headquartered in

Pforzheim Pforzheim () is a city of over 125,000 inhabitants in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, in the southwest of Germany. It is known for its jewelry and watch-making industry, and as such has gained the nickname "Goldstadt" ("Golden City") ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

History

The manufactory was established in 1893 by Ernst Alexander Wellendorff and is now run by his great-great grandchildren. The Wellendorff rope first appeared in 1977, its recipe unchanging through the years. Christoph Wellendorff claims that their jewellery cannot be replicated exactly how they craft it.Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: „Ein zehnmal gespaltenes Haar in Gold"
(german, ''A ten times split hair in gold'') (accessed last 19 February 2012) Since 1993 the company has produced a collection of cold enamel jewellery and rings.{{Cite web, date=2011-07-07, title=Wellendorff Chocolate Collection - Jewelry, url=http://www.affluentmagazine.com/articles/article/230, access-date=2021-02-08, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707092636/http://www.affluentmagazine.com/articles/article/230, archive-date=7 July 2011

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External links

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German brands German jewellers Jewellery companies of Germany Companies based in Baden-Württemberg Pforzheim